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After several years of making homebrew beer from a can of goo and a kilo of sugar, i have taken the next step to try and make a tastier (and hopefully not to much more expensive) beer.

I bought enough ingredients for two batches from thebrewshop:

• 4kg light dry malt extract
• 2kg dextrose
• 100g pride of ringwood hops
• 100g saaz hops
• 2pkts US05 yeast

As you can see, this was going to be a very basic extract beer. Single malt, with just two hop additions. The reason for this was i didn’t want to mess about with mixing different types of malt extract and too many hops because i wanted to see what a basic beer tasted like and use it as a benchmark for any beers after this one.

Recipe

• 2kg ldme
• 1kg dextrose
• 20g POR @ 60min (edit: 26g measured with scales)
• 25g Saaz @ 15min (edit: 23g measured with scales)
• US05 yeast

Beer is in fermenter at about 20 degrees (some may say too hot! but its the best i can do).

Original Gravity was around 1044

The beer has a really spicy smell, i think i may have added too much saaz. Will post once have bottled and tasted.

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